What drives team learning: core conditions and paths
ISSN: 1366-5626
Article publication date: 5 January 2023
Issue publication date: 7 March 2023
Abstract
Purpose
The purpose of this study is to analyze the configurational effect of transformational leadership, team conflict, team cohesion and psychological safety on team learning.
Design/methodology/approach
The questionnaire and two different data sources (team members and team leaders) were used as data collection strategy. Based on a sample of 82 teams, qualitative comparative analysis in its fuzzy set variant was used to test the model.
Findings
The findings of this study reveal that three important paths explain team learning: the presence of transformational leadership, task cohesion and psychological safety with the absence of relationship conflict; the presence of transformational leadership, social and task cohesion and psychological safety; and the presence of transformational leadership, social and task cohesion with the absence of relationship and task conflict.
Originality/value
Overall, the findings suggest that the presence of transformational leadership, team cohesion and psychological safety and the absence of conflict are important conditions for team learning to occur, as well as that more than one configurations of antecedent factors drive team learning.
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Acknowledgements
CeBER's research is funded by national funds through FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P., Project UIDB/05037/2020.
Conflicts of interest: On behalf of all authors, the corresponding author states that there is no conflict of interest.
Citation
Pinheiro, M., Rebelo, T., Lourenço, P.R. and Dimas, I. (2023), "What drives team learning: core conditions and paths", Journal of Workplace Learning, Vol. 35 No. 2, pp. 146-163. https://doi.org/10.1108/JWL-06-2022-0079
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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